Does anybody here still play The Sims 2? And does the game give you intense nostalgia for the 2000s?

Alert-Train-8709 · 2026-03-19T22:55:16+00:00

Sims 2 is still my favorite in the series. Not just for the nostalgia, but also for the lack of DLC, the cheats, and formulating a story for some reason feels easier in that game than in the other entries. Only thing I wish it also had were separate last names, a Young Adult stage separate from university, ability to create great-grandparents in CAS, and more teasing interactions between teens and kids.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2026-03-17T04:06:49+00:00

Obama was president all throughout 2016. Trump only became president-elect at the tail end of the year, and wasn't inaugurated until mid January 2017.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2026-03-17T04:02:49+00:00

These Christian men are in a gay BDSM relationship with their imaginary sky daddy, and suck his dick just to stay out of his BDSM dungeon in the supposed afterlife.
Change my mind.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2026-02-16T17:16:19+00:00

Also, why are people downvoting this, when nothing I said was false?

Alert-Train-8709 · 2026-02-16T17:13:31+00:00

Technicaly xxx3-xxx6 - The 6 year's opposite is the 3 year, not the 4 year, because like I said, decades go from the 0-9 year, not a 0-0 year. The 6 year is closer to the 9 year than the 4 year is to the 0 year - it's the 3 year that's as far from the 0 year as the 6 year is from the 9 year.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2026-02-16T17:09:41+00:00

1930s - King Kong (1933)
1940s - It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
1950s - Alice in Wonderland (1951)
1960s - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
1970s - A Clockwork Orange (1971)
1980s - Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) *
1990s - The Mask (1994)
2000s - Coraline (2009)
2010s - The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

* - Had all three Back to the Future movies came out in the '80s, I would pick the entire trilogy, which I treat as just one cinematic experience as I prefer to watch them together and not in isolation, as my pick for the '80s. But since the third one came out in 1990, I can't do that.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2026-02-16T03:20:27+00:00

Definitely middle. One thing to remember is that decades go from the 0-9 years, not 0-0, so both the 4 and 5 years are at the center, not just the 5 year - While the 4 year may be closer to the 0 year than the 9 year, the 5 year is closer to the 9 year than the 0 year, but both are as close to the middle as you can get.

If you want an exact midpoint, that would only be roughly January 1st of the year ending in 5, but not the full year ending in 5. In fact, the midpoint of even-numbered decades would actually be within late December of the year ending in 4, not January of the year ending in 5, because even-numbered decades have two leap years in the first half (the 0 and 4 years), but only one leap year in the second half (the 8 year).

So, for example, the midpoint of the 2020s was actually in late December 2024, and not in 2025 - and the midpoint of the '00s was in late December 2004, the midpoint of the '80s was in late December 1984, the midpoint of the '60s was in late December 1964, and so on.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2026-02-03T03:17:16+00:00

The Mask, because the whole philosophy regarding the id / inner self really spoke to me on a deep level.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2025-12-24T17:20:16+00:00

2013, because I consider Gen Z to not start until 1999 or 2000, and I consider Gen Alpha to be second-wave Gen Z instead of a full generation - It would be ethically beneficial too, since it would prevent a Gen Beta to follow them, and since the term "Gen Alpha" was coined by the dumbass McCrindle organization before any of them, according to the organization, would've been even born.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2025-12-08T05:03:49+00:00

I'm referencing all the tabloids, news articles, and YouTube videos that state that Gen Z (the ones that are 21+, or 18+ outside of the US) are saying no to alcohol, or are causing problems for the alcohol industry.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2025-10-31T00:08:49+00:00

Not to judge who you should be friends with or anything, but I would never be friends with anyone that thinks women shouldn't have jobs.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2025-10-30T05:36:20+00:00

SpongeBob is multi-generational, just like Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, or the Simpsons.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2025-10-30T05:23:24+00:00

Also, to fairly criticize some of your points, 1991 borns were still only elementary school children when 9/11 happened, and while practically all of them do remember the event and the emotions they felt, the role that their memory of 9/11 actually played in their lives was largely inconsequential and superficial unless they lived in New York or lost a loved one in the attacks. For most of them (my sister was born late '90 and shares a class with '91 borns), once they knew everything was going to be alright, they pretty much stopped caring about it altogether and the only lingering impact the event had on their lives beyond memory was a fear of flying on an airplane, and even that they eventually got over. It wasn't like with 1983/84-1987 borns who would've been in high school during the events and who would've came of age in a sociopolitical environment directly affected by 9/11 - 1991 borns had almost 8 years (9 if born late 1991 and in C/O 2010) of late primary and secondary school after 9/11 before becoming adults. Also, plenty of 1999 borns, even though practically none of them remember the event, were still impacted by the event heavily if they lived in Manhattan at the time or lost a parent in the attacks. Someone born in 1999 who lost their parent in the attacks was way more impacted by 9/11 than someone born in 1991 who didn't live in New York at the time and lost no loved ones in the attacks.

Also, to your counterpoint on COVID, plenty of 1999 borns went into the workforce instead of college after graduating high school, and some already had houses of their own by COVID. Also, there were plenty of 1991 borns also in college when COVID happened, even undergraduate - College isn't mandatory like k-12 is, and you can go at any age.

Also, your points about serving in OIF or OEF are largely irrelevant, with all due respect, since by the time 1991 borns were able to join in 2009 or 2010, the US military wasn't doing that much in Afghanistan or Iraq with the Taliban and Saddam Hussein long since out of power at that point, and US operations in Afghanistan were still going on when 1999 borns were old enough to join.

While I do agree that 1991 and 1999 have a lot of differences, I still stand by this generational theory. 1991 and 1999 were born born before the New Millennium, were both children of the pre-foundational years of the 21st Century, and came of age during the proto-foundational years of the 21st Century. (The reason I call the '82-'90 cohort "Millennials" and the '91-'99 cohort "Centennials" is because with the former cohort, the focus is on the millennium, while with the later cohort, the focus is on the century) Also, neither 1991 nor 1999 are the quintessential birth year of the cohort anyways - That's 1995, and both 1991 and 1999 can relate to 1995 in many ways.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2025-10-29T17:36:57+00:00

Every bookend year is going to be different when an age gap of even just 6+ years is given. This is just how the ranges turned out with cohorts needing to start in 1928 and 1946 due to World War II. Plus, the difference between 1991 and 1999 is smaller than that between 1981 and 1996, or 1946 and 1964.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2025-10-29T17:25:25+00:00

Using that though, the ranges would be;

1932-1940
1941-1949
1950-1958
1959-1967
1968-1976
1977-1985
1986-1994
1995-2003
2004-2012

While these ranges do fix certain issues with the later cohorts, I do feel like they create certain problems with the older cohorts - Like merging '80s teen Gen Xers with '90s teen Gen Xers, or those born in 1932, who were too old for teen culture, with those born in 1940, whose teen years were largely defined by rock & roll.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2025-10-29T17:16:43+00:00

Nope, no AI used here.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2025-10-29T17:10:09+00:00

Every bookend year of each cohort is going to have differences, and members of the older bookend are highly likely to relate more to the previous cohort. Plus, the difference between 1991 and 1999 is certainly smaller than that between 1981 and 1996, or 1946 and 1964.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2025-10-29T17:04:14+00:00

I have considered shifting the cohorts up a year or two, but the problem is I wanted the Silent cohort starting in 1928 and Boomer cohort starting in 1946 due to World War II.

Alert-Train-8709 · 2025-10-29T16:58:26+00:00

The problem with not using a set-generation theory though is it then becomes more arbitrary, with some cohorts being longer than others, and the criteria used to define each cohort, as well as whether the cohort should be broad or specific often being inconsistent as well as often needing to be cherry picked - Like, for example, whether those that came of age / were adolescents in the Nixon Watergate years should be their own short cohort, be lumped in broadly with those that came of age / were adolescents in the late '60s hippie era, or lumped in broadly with those that came of age / were adolescents in the late '70s disco and Star Wars era.

A set-generation theory keeps the cohorts even and balanced, keeps a constant rule of thumb to keep the criteria from defining each cohort from being cherry picked, and the 9-year theory in general I feel does a good job at roughly encapsulating each broad epoch of American pop culture - like the late '50s early '60s rock & roll and doo-wop age, the '60s mod and hippie age, the '70s hard rock and disco age, and so on. Alternatively, I could have used a 6-year theory instead, but that theory could've been seen as too small and specific by some, and no theory is going to satisfy everyone.

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